St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-09
DOWN ON MONOPOlIES. H
Tie Knights of Labor Give the Standard
Gil Company a Severe
Drubbing.
No Afternoon Session. Work
Occupies the Time---An In
p0rtant Action.
An Open Meeting of the "Granks," at
Which the Land Question
is Discussed.

At the morning session of the knights
of Labor general assembly, at Mime
apoliS, yesterday, the rules were sus-
pended after some discussion, and L.
ii. Lawry, OF Bradford, Pa, delegate of
ID. a. Ill, read a memorial denOuncing
bitterly the Standard Oil company
monopoly, and appealing for members
of the order to sustain by their patron
age the X. of L. Cooperative Oil Rein
ing company, of Olean, n. Y, which
caused some discussion of favorable
character to the petitioners:
Office of the knights of Labor Cooperative
Operative Oil Refining Company, Olean, n.
Y. Aug. 20, 1SS7-To the officers and dele
gates of the general assembly, Knights of
Labor: Believing i'll the ultimate success of
our enterprise in the interest of the common
brotherhood, and relying as we must on the
order of the Knights of Labor for patronage
ana support, therefore We appeal 10 this as
Sembly for recognition and recommendation
to the order everywhere to purchase our oil
wherever ii can be had, and to make Il de-
mand to dealers for such goods. If the deal
ers VIII not supply the oil, then we ask that
the assemblies everywhere take action and
order for their use. thereby creating de-
mand for our OIL Remember we are COM
petlng with the strongest and most unScrup
ulous monopoly in the world. They have
oil reinerieS and cotton seed oil plants
than all other monopolies combined. A
partial list of petroleum refneries in
PENNSYLVANIA bankrupted, quashed out
bought up and dismantled, embraces
seveuty-One i'll number. \ list of cotton seed
oil manufacturers frozen oct of existence by
the American Cotton Oil Trust owned and
controlled by the Standard Oil company
numbers ninety-four. The names of these
firms can be furnished. but il is not necessary
and would only occupy too much of the time
OF this assembly and is therefore withheld.
AT the rate they have been able to crush out
all competitors in the past ten years they
will, unless some system of restraint can be
adopted, own or control in twenty years
three-fourths of all the railroads and manu-
facturlng enterprises in the United States,
and, i'll fact, they do now virtually control
legislation in several of the states regarding
the transportation of oil, and have pocketed.
and are absorbing millions of dollars year
at the expense of the producer. We ask you
as members of common brotherhood to take
such action as shall seem consistent in the
circumstances. Many of our brothers are
standing by lis nobly and our trade is i'm
proving, yet, it is not sufficient to maintain
US at such an immense disadvantage.
The memorial is signed by the officers
Ofthe oil company.
Luther B. Moves, of Wisconsin, re-
Sumed his report Oh the company laws
which affect organization, some of his
recommendations arouSing considerable
discussion. a motion 10 prepare reS0-
luuOnS cOndemning the absorption of
the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph COM
pany by the Western Union and Jay
Gould i'll particular stirred up red hot
debate, but finally carried and COM
mittee for the purpose was prepared.
j. ). Lowering, an Iowa delegate,
asked that an address should be pre-
pared and sent TO the secretary of the
interior at Washington protesting
against the evictiOns In O'Brien county,
Iowa, under the land grant forfeiture.
His request was unanimously granted.
The general master workman APP
pointed a committee of five to devise
plans for the future government of the
Labor Journal and another committee
on immigration legislation to prepare
memorial to be presented to congress at
the coming session.
No meeting was held in the afternoon
in order to permit certain committee
work to be DONE